Vacation Update

Well I'm still not doing anything particularly exciting.  Boo! I won't complain though because I have been able to spend time with some visitors each of the last three weeks.

As far as summer movies go I've seen The Avengers and Men in Black III. 

I've been happy with the amount of reading time I've had too.  So far I've finished reading City of God (St. Augustine), Twenty Decisive Battles of the World (Mitchell and Creasy), as well as various comic books and science fiction magazines. The June issue of Asimov's SF had some good stories in it, including one By Megan Arkenberg written in the form of an exam.  Lucky for me there was an answer key included (and I didn't have to grade the exam).  I am currently reading The Year's Best Science Fiction #28.  Normally I find most of the stories in these volumes to be fairly dull, but so far there have been some nice stories especially the ones by Allen Steele, Peter Watts, Tad Williams, and Steven Popkes.  I still have about about 15 stories left so I hope I haven't read all the good stuff already.

I'm slowly starting to get the cooking bug back.  In the past couple of weeks I've made a seafood stew (I can't find the picture!) and another batch of beans.